Gryllida,

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 12:55 AM Gryllida <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Gregory
>
> > I haven’t settled on a subject for my dissertation yet.  One I am
> > considering is the nature of consciousness.  The idea is that
> > consciousness could be an emergent property in complex systems.  As we
> > have observed with LLMs many of the things it doesn are unexpected and
> > not specifically programmed. Or possibly to study the larger impact of
> > AI on software development. That last one is more to the point but a
> > bit more pedestrian than the first.
>
> Wow. This is still so broad. I think this depends a lot on the input
> data and the prompt.
>

It is a bit, as I said, I am not sure of what the subject will be quite
yet.  At this point, the ability of AI to do development is "acceptable"
and is, basically, at the point of a junior programmer.  The code it
creates can be a bit sloppy, depending on how much code it has been trained
on in a given language.


> I think actually if you wanted to implement something, then
> you could do way better job than Copilot does. There are many
> non-privacy invasive, not energy consuming things that an AI
> system could do with a desktop.
>
> > Stage 2, bad but recoverable with the right treatment.
>
> All the best with this. Sounded like time to step back and
> reduce the workload. I hope the government that is so notorious for
> expensive medical care can at least somewhat support you in such
> a situation.
>

To me, it's a wake-up call.  This is something I've been meaning to do for
a very long time.  Getting sick has only pushed me to go for it now because
I may not have time later on.   I love learning, so to me, it's a waste

> A 2-3 day workshop would be a lot of fun.
>
> This could be setup as in collaboration with FSF, they probably
> can disseminate link to an online workshop and programme to
> their user lists. Someone would need to come up with a system to
> compile a programme with a list of talks or workshop session
> themes for that.
>

This might be worth exploring.

Regards,
> Gryllida
>

Yours, GC
-- 
Gregory Casamento
GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant
http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c

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